Scott Merms 🏞️

Scott Merms 🏞️

@shmermel.bsky.social

Geologist in metropolis Leftist, Indiana Alum he/him/they/them

1,360 Followers 832 Following 2,483 Posts Joined Aug 2023
16 hours ago

I think one of my tickets is now a 2 day pass but I don't know how to check besides just showing up and hoping for the best

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1 day ago

Sweet, Rugby tickets are supposed to be in my account but SI tickets won't even load for me to check 🙄 @sportsillustrated.bsky.social @sistadium.bsky.social

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1 day ago

I also submitted Bowie to @weratedogs.com #btposse

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1 day ago

Oh @editorialboard.bsky.social did you notice they fired us? beat up our students? deported them?? blacklisted us? i hadn’t in front of students for two years until this week, and it’s in another country. The protesters were purged by Biden, so the bravest student organizers are gone for Trump.

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2 days ago
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Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.

The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.

The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

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2 days ago
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a bald man in a gold and black robe says you fell victim to one of the classic blunders Alt: a bald man in a gold and black robe says you fell victim to one of the classic blunders
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2 days ago

Freedom isn’t Free.
No, There’s a hefty fuckin’ fee.

You don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?
Oooh buck o' five
Freedom costs a buck o' five

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3 days ago
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a group of pirates are standing on a boat and one is holding a skull Alt: jack Sparrow smiling and holding up his jar of dirt
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3 days ago

Meanwhile you Democrats are more upset that you couldn't maximize your profits with advance knowledge of the attacks than the fact we bombed more kids

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3 days ago

I shipped some soil samples and I don't know what she thought I said instead of soil but she responded, "we're not allowed to ship human remains"

And I'm like, uh... It's dirt.

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3 days ago
A close up of Bowie looking very happy while she receives a belly rub

Belly rub face #terriertuesday #btposse

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3 days ago
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Why We Never Got a “Murrow Moment” With Trump The days are long gone when a single journalist could fatally wound an American demagogue. But that’s not what actually happened with Murrow’s famous broadcast on Senator Joe McCarthy.

72 years ago tonight, Edward R. Murrow made his famous broadcast on Sen. Joe McCarthy.

As I wrote for @newrepublic.com a couple years ago, we should remember Murrow not for taking down McCarthy (which is a myth), but as one of the great advocates for democracy: newrepublic.com/article/1795... 🗃️

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4 days ago

And my dad is encouraging me to rent out my condo for the world cup

I should but I can't decide if I don't want to deal with the world cup or the paperwork more

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4 days ago
Screenshot of a message on teams in dark mode which reads, Morning all. An interesting opportunity from our Federal Group. They are looking to build a roster of staff who would be deployed to the Middle East/Asia Minor area after hostilities have ceased. The purpose of the fieldwork would be to document damage, followed by supporting repair design efforts back in the office. Field Sorties would be two to three weeks at a time. US Citizenship is a requirement. I don't know specific areas, and we are just looking for anyone who would be interested at this time. If this does interest you please let me know so I can follow up later with more information (please note that this is by no means a commitment. We are just creating a list of potential candidates). Thank you.

I hope nobody is going to jump at this, maybe except the guy who's been training me because he's from Lebanon

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4 days ago

@echinoblog.bsky.social

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4 days ago
A large specimen of pink rubellite columnar crystals in radiating clusters along central points or lines, in fine grained lepidolite. It sits on the bottom shelf in a display case with a small label to the lower right. At the Natural History Museum in London.

Pink rubellite, usually a variety of elbaite (a tourmaline), in pale purple lepidolite (a mica) looking like a bunch of sea creatures. #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

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5 days ago

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

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6 days ago

Hilarious that it's New York because those same exact Democrats handed 3 seats to the GOP, partially through redistricting, instead of supporting progressive candidates

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6 days ago

Ok my brain finally put it together. The new euphemisms, for example those posts that have been popular lately, "regular post vs LinkedIn post," all that stuff sounds so disingenuous and fake to me because they sound like Elon's bullshit

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6 days ago

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

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6 days ago

Assed Gasses

New Hampshire, Death Records, 1654-1947

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6 days ago
Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

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6 days ago

My cousin's kid is like 6 now (and I think he still loves to sing) so I was saying they should introduce him to Labyrinth but when I told his dad he got hesitant and was like, maybe we should ease him into it... I know they kidnap the baby but I'm pretty sure it's very mild after that. Am I wrong?

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6 days ago

What if the billion satellites to orbit the Earth can combine to form a Dyson sphere or a Mega Maid

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1 week ago

Bluesky the asshole list site

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1 week ago

I need to stop using Gmail and having to dig a bunch of birthday greetings out of my spam box while literal spam to gets to my inbox should be the last straw

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1 week ago

Y'all only collect evidence when it's your sugar daddy. Don't make me pull up one of your many pseudoscience pieces on our trans friends.

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1 week ago
a collage of these three tweets
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n
https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

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1 week ago
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The El Nino cometh.

This would push up our estimate for 2026 global temperatures (though its still unlikely to surpass 2024 as the warmest year), and make 2027 very likely to be the warmest year on record given the historical lag b/w ENSO and surface temp.

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